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The metric and the electromagnetic potential generated by a static, spherically symmetric charged massive object in any dimension are given by the Reissner-Nordström-Tangherlini solution. We derive the expansion of this solution up to third post-Minkowskian order by computing the classical contribution of scattering amplitudes describing the emission of either a graviton or a photon from a massive charged scalar field up to two loops. In four and five dimensions these amplitudes develop ultraviolet divergences that are cancelled by higher-derivative counterterms in a way that generalises what was recently shown to happen in the chargeless case. This renormalisation procedure produces logarithmic terms that match exactly those produced in the post-Minkowskian expansion of the classical solution in de Donder gauge.
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D’Onofrio, S., Fragomeno, F., Gambino, C. et al. The Reissner-Nordström-Tangherlini solution from scattering amplitudes of charged scalars. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 13 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)013
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